Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 2 | In practice , medical workload is often reduced in the summer period and educational events usually organised at the least popular holiday times , so this serves further to simplify the exercise . |
| 3 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 4 | Deforestation is , however , occurring at a much more rapid rate than afforestation . |
| 5 | During titration with HCl/NaOH , however , the Ca 2 + activity fell with increasing pH in a biphasic manner , with the breaking point occurring at a significantly lower median pH in patients with gall stones than in patients without ( pH7.1 v 8.2 ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 6 | ON Monday night in London four of Darlington 's brightest bands appear at the highly trendy Orange Club in West Kensington , hoping to impress a crowd of business executives . |
| 7 | The breaking point was located at a significantly lower pH in patients with gall stones than in controls ( pH 7.1 v pH 8.2 ) ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 8 | Another sequence with enhancer-like character has been described in the S-phase regulated histone H4 , although located at a very distal position with respect to the transcription start point ( 21 ) . |
| 9 | Such rumours suggest at the very least a readiness to believe that the highest leadership of State and military was — to put it mildly — no longer in control of the situation . |
| 10 | On March 24 a soldier was shot and seriously wounded at an otherwise peaceful demonstration by Islamic students in Makulla , east of Aden , and two days later counter-demonstrations were organized in the town , attended by several thousand people . |
| 11 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 12 | James Courtney crashed at the very fast Mathers cross bend on the first 250 race , but was reported last night to be sitting up in hospital . |
| 13 | Whatever one may think of its application to the particular case , there can be little doubt that Banfield has at the very least described in an ideal form a society in which thrift , enterprise , trust and cooperation are impossible , and therefore one in which political and economic development along liberal democratic and capitalist lines are grossly inhibited . |
| 14 | The world 's population now stands at a little over four billion . |
| 15 | Remember these routes are all on limestone , which rarely gives good routes at less than VS , but a line of bolts , ending at a firmly anchored chain , up dry and solid rock , means that a much bolder approach can be adopted than on the polished , easier routes of Stoney or the vertical scree of Swanage . |
| 16 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 17 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 18 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 19 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 20 | The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 . |
| 21 | There is a useful general classification into two types : flows in which turbulent motion first occurs in small patches , and flows in which the randomness characteristic of turbulence develops at a roughly equal rate throughout the transition region . |
| 22 | Redness , on the other hand , which is associated both with the ( destructive ) shedding of blood and with the primordial ties of kinship in blood signifies at a more abstract level discontinuity , disharmony , and might acquired by , and displayed in , breaking the rules of order and harmony . |
| 23 | Piaget attempts to map the increasing capacity for abstraction implied by the symbolic function , showing that in this development , language , which depends on an entirely conventional relationship between sign and signified , is bound to come at a relatively late stage . |
| 24 | This project looks at a highly distinctive group — migrants from the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe — who because of their French nationality ( the islands are departements d'outre mer ) and the organised nature of their migration share only in part the socio-economic characteristics of the foreign immigrant population . |
| 25 | BARRY GOODWIN looks at the most probable causes of fish deaths in some of this year 's new ones and suggests ways to prevent it from happening to you . |
| 26 | Intonation and sentence stress — This section looks at the most common intonation patterns and problems in English , and gives students practice in the intonation used , for instance , in making polite requests , showing interest , disagreeing politely etc . |
| 27 | The need for user studies has been widely discussed in the past decade , and Chapter 4 of this book looks at the very considerable recent literature on the subject . |
| 28 | Hong Kong , Hong Kong , Beats the Chinese Heart , a Viewpoint touring exhibition by Simon Buckley shows the mix of traditional and modern lifestyles in Hong Kong and looks at the how the Chinese community has attempted to recreate the atmosphere of Hong Kong in Manchester ( until 2 Mar ) . |
| 29 | Equine nutritionist Zoe Davies MSc looks at the rapidly expanding supplement market . |
| 30 | When these values are adjusted to the 1 bar altitude , which lies at a fairly small distance below the cloud tops ( Figure 9.5 ) , then the equatorial radius is 71 400 km and the polar radius is 66 550 km . |